This week: PGA Tour’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, Thursday through Sunday, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Fourth-round score: 3-under-par 68.

Position: Moore (10-under 274) finished tied for 14th, six strokes behind winner Hunter Mahan (268).

Recap: At one point, Moore had dropped three strokes to 4-over for the tournament after his bogey on the 12th hole. He then made six birdies the rest fo the way, including one at the raucous par-3 16th where he sank a 9-foot putt to get back to even-par on his round. He then strung together three birdies in a row (Nos. 2-4) to get back …

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This week: PGA Tour’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, Thursday through Sunday, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Third-round score: 3-over-par 74.

Position: Moore (7-under 206) is tied for 34th, seven strokes behind leader Brandt Snedeker (199).

Recap: Lurking around the lead most of the afternoon, Moore’s rocky stretch started on the 11th hole. His drive landed in the right-side lake, leading to a bogey. Then he started missing short putts – a 6-footer for a bogey on the 13th hole, and a 7-footer for par on the 18th. The Cascade Christian graduate has ground to make up to get a high enough …

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This week: PGA Tour’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, Thursday through Sunday, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Second-round score: 5-under-par 66.

Position: Moore (10-under 132) is tied for third, one stroke off the lead shared by Camilo Villegas and Mark Wilson (131).

Recap: After an early double bogey, the Puyallup golfer played near-flawless golf – seven birdies and no bogeys. And like he did Thursday, he did his damage on his final nine holes (No. 1 through 9). He began that side with back-to-back birdies, then finished it off by knocking a pitching wedge approach from 130 yards out close, and sinking …

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This week: PGA Tour’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, Thursday through Sunday, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz.

First-round score: 5-under-par 66.

Position: Moore is tied for seventh, four strokes behind leader Camilo Villegas (62).

Recap: Easily his best round in this tournament, the Puyallup golfer blistered TPC Scottsdale’s back nine holes (five birdies, no bogeys), including back-to-back birdies to finish up. Moore decided to lay up on the short par-4 17th, and almost holed out his approach. The par-4 18th ranked as the second-hardest hole Thursday, but Moore made a 13-foot putt to move into the top 10 on the leaderboard.

Tee …

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This week: PGA Tour’s Waste Management Phoenix Open, Thursday through Sunday, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz.

World ranking: 54th.

2010 earnings: $380,173 (35th on the PGA Tour).

Last tournament: The Puyallup golfer’s stay at his first WGC-Match Play Championship near Tucson was short-lived last week. He was ousted in the opening round by South Africa’s Ernie Els, 4-and-3. But, oh, how the schedule is kind. Moore gets the rare opportunity to sleep in his own bed this week – as do many of the guys who have relocated to Scottsdale – and play a course with which he’s familiar. After missing …

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Spokane’s Alex Prugh took a much-needed break last week – he’s got a not-so-distant-future wedding to help plan – after playing every tournament on the PGA Tour’s “West Coast Swing” where he had three consecutive top-10 finishes (and was 5-for-5 in cuts made).

Money won’t be an issue. He’s earned nearly $600,000, easily inside the top 20 on the 2010 earnings list.

After this week’s Waste Management Open, the season’s first rookie “reshuffle” will take place. As of now, he’ll be No. 1 on that list, and will be in line to play whatever PGA Tour tournament he wants.

How …

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Tacoma’s Taylor Ferris hasn’t made the waves of some of the more experienced PGA assistant professionals in the Northwest, but he took a big step Thursday.

Ferris, a Life Christian Academy graduate, won the prestigious Pelzer Golf Supplies Washington State Assistants Championship.

In fact, the 24-year-old was the lone golfer in the field to break 70 at Fairwood Golf and Country Club – firing a 5-under-par 66 to win the one-round title by four strokes over Kent’s Josh Immordino.

He made five birdies (on Nos. 8, 9, 14, 16 and 18) and no bogeys during his round.

Ferris, who graduated …

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This week: PGA Tour’s Mayakoba Classic, Thursday through Sunday, El Camaleon Golf Club, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Second-round score: 1-over-par 72.

Position: Stanley (even-par 142) missed the cut by one stroke. Joe Durant (130) holds a two-stroke lead.

Recap: The Gig Harbor resident was inside the cutline, and playing his final par-5 – the eighth hole – when the unexpected happened. He made a bogey. It cost him the chance to make his first cut on the PGA Tour this season.

Next: Nationwide Tour’s Panama Claro Championship starting Thursday at Panama Golf Club.